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The '''[http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ PuTTY]''' SSH client for Windows and Unix supports the UTF-8 character set, but under some circumstances it may not be used by default.  You can set the default character set with
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The '''[http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ PuTTY]''' SSH client for Windows and Unix supports the UTF-8 character set, but under some circumstances it may not be used by default.  You can set the character set for the current session with
 
: Window → Translation → Received data assumed to be in which character set → UTF-8,
 
: Window → Translation → Received data assumed to be in which character set → UTF-8,
 
and save this as the default setting with
 
and save this as the default setting with
 
: Session → Default Settings → Save.
 
: Session → Default Settings → Save.

Revision as of 00:57, 16 December 2008

The PuTTY SSH client for Windows and Unix supports the UTF-8 character set, but under some circumstances it may not be used by default. You can set the character set for the current session with

Window → Translation → Received data assumed to be in which character set → UTF-8,

and save this as the default setting with

Session → Default Settings → Save.
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